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Time in Equatorial Guinea

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Time in Equatorial Guinea
Time zoneWest Africa Time
InitialsWAT
UTC offsetUTC+01:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Malabo

Time in Equatorial Guinea is given by a single time zone, denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00).[1][2] Equatorial Guinea shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa.[3] Equatorial Guinea does not observe daylight saving time (DST).[4]

IANA time zone database

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In the IANA time zone database, Equatorial Guinea is given one zone in the file zone.tab—Africa/Malabo. "GQ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Equatorial Guinea directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[5]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
GQ +0345+00847 Africa/Malabo +01:00 +01:00

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Equatorial Guinea". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 27 August 2022. time difference: UTC +1
  2. ^ "Equatorial Guinea time zone". GreenwichMeanTime.com. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  3. ^ Western European Time. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Equatorial Guinea Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Africa". tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
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